Aura soave di segreti accenti (Luzzasco Luzzaschi)

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(Posted 2019-07-02) CPDL #54670:

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2019-07-02). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 255 kB Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Aura soave di segreti accenti
Composer: Luzzasco Luzzaschi
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Number of voices: 1v Voicing: S
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1601 in Madrigali per cantare et sonare a 1-3 soprani, no. 1
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Original text and translations

Italian text

Aura soave di segreti accenti,
Che penetrando per l'orecchie al core,
Svegliasti la dove dormiva Amore,
Per te respiro e vivo,
Da che nel petto mio,
Spirasti tu d'Amor vital desio,
Vissi di vita privo,
Mentre amorosa cura in me fu spenta,
Hor vien che l'alma senta
Virtu di quel tuo spirito gentile.
Felice vita oltre l'usato stile.

English translation

Sweet, mysterious music!
You pierced my ear and found my heart.
There, you woke love, fast asleep,
and now, through you, I live and breathe.

Deep down in me,
you brought love back to life.
I had given up on love;
I was living without life.

Come, dear spirit,
strengthen my soul—
a better life than I have ever known!

Translation by Nicholas Jones